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TRAY. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4. 1915.

`1 ,2,1 6,856. Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

JOHN M. SECORD, 0F BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent. i'

Application led February 4, 1915. Serial No. 6,059.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MCLEAN Snoonn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inTrayS, of which the followinis a specification.

his invention relates to small trays or stands, and has for its object to provide a neat appearing and desirable device of this character which can be cheaply. manufactured and which is of simple construction, such that the parts thereof can be readily assembled and taken apart. Another object is to construct the tray in such a manner that itl can be advantageously used for advertising purposes.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a device embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a cross section thereof on line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view, showing one end of the bridge and the method of attaching this portion to the side wall of the tray.

Fi 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation, showing the other end of the bridge and one method of' fastening the same in position in the tray.

Fig. 5 is a modified form of the structure shown in Fig. 4.

6 represents a. tray or stand of sheet metal or other suitable material which is of the usual type, having a depressed central portion or bottom 7 surrounded by side walls or rims 8 which preferably flare or slope upwardly and outwardly from the bottom. Cards or strips 9 of any suitable material bearing advertising matter, pictures or the like, can be placed in the bottom of the tray and are held in position therein by a plate 10 of lass or other transparent material. This g ass plate is of such size as to fit on the bottom of the tray within the sides or rim, and while allowing the advertising or other matter on the cards to be plainly visible, protects the cards from dust, wear or injury.

11 represents a bridge or fastening member, preferably made of sheet metal and havin the top portion 12 and downturned edge anges or rim portions 13 and 14 extending therefrom. 15 represents tongues formed integrally with the edge of the rim 13 at one end of the tray, and adapted to ex-` tend through corresponding openings 16 in one of the side walls 8 of the tray. The opposite wall of the tray has one or more projections or humps 17 formed thereon which bear against the adjacent rim 13 of the bridge and serve bridge in position.

In the modied construction shown in Fig. 5, the rim 13 of the bridge has indentations 18 formed therein, into which the projections 17 seat for retaining the bridge in position. An obvious reversal of this arrangement would be to provide the humps on the rim k13 of the bridge so as to bear against the adjacent rim wall of the tray or seat in depressions therein.

Any small articles, such as a cigar cutter 19 and a matchl box holder 20, can be fastened to the bridge in a suitable manner so as to be supported thereby, as for example,

by the tongues 21 on these devices whichA pass through openings formed in the top 'portion of the bridge and are bent under against the under side of the bridge. One or more such articles can be mounted within the tray, near the central part thereof, without the necessity of boring holes in the glass plate. Such articles, as well as the bridge portion, can if desired have advertising matter placed directly thereon. 22 represents supports on the rim of the tray for holding cigars. These can be used or not, as desired.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination of a tray having a bottom portion surrounded by rim walls, a card or the like located in the tray on said bottom portion, a removable holder which bridges said tray over said card and has a tongue at one end thereof entering a hole in one of the rim walls of the tray, and frictional holding means comprising projections formed on the opposite rim wall of the tray adapted to abut against the other end of the holder below the upper surface thereof for releasably securing the holder in place in the tray.

2. The combination of a tray, a card fittin within the tray, a glass plate over said car and a bridge comprising a top portion and downturned rim anges extending therefrom detachably secured within said tray and serving to retain the card and the glass plate in place and to act as a support for a smokers appliance mounted thereon.

3. The combination of a tray having rim Patented Feb. 2o, 1917.

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to detachably hold the Walls provided at opposite sides thereof Vrespectively with a projection and an opening, a removable card fitting Within the tray, and a bridge comprising a top portion and downturned rim flanges extending therefrom, said bridge being detachably secured Within said 'tray by means of a tongue formed at one end thereof adapted to enter said opening in the rim Wall of the tray and a depression formed at the opposite end of the bridge With Which the projection in the rim Wall of the tray engages and .serving to retain the card in place and to actas a support for a smokers appliance mounted thereon.

4;. In an advertising novelty, the combination of a tray, a card fitted removably Within the tray, and a detachable holder comprising a central portion and downturned rim [ianges extending therefrom having tongues at one end of said rim flanges adapted to enter openings in one of the rim Walls of the tray and having comparatively shallow depressions formed in its other end adapted to be engaged by corresponding projections on the adjacent Wall of the tray.

Vitness my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN M. SECORD. Witnesses:

C. W. PARKER, C. B. Hoi-menen.y

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